Twins Weekend: Write about twins (Padma and Parvati Patil)

Muggle Art #1 Task One: Write about a character distancing themselves emotionally from something else. (does what she's known as count? Lol, or her sister?)

Writing Club: World Lion Day: Write about a Gryffindor

Word Count: 548

Padma's Twin

Parvati did not want to be known as just 'Padma's Twin' anymore. It was all she had ever been known as. The lesser twin, the spare. The unwanted one. She wanted to become something new, something better. She wanted to become someone.

She decided this as she was standing in the Great Hall, waiting for everyone else to be Sorted. Why it took so long for one person to get sorted, Parvati did not know, yet Pansy Parkinson was soon a Slytherin—no surprise to Parvati, as she knew the girl and she had possessed multiple qualities from that House. Then "Patil, Padma" was called.

Parvati watched her sister with little interest. What did she care what House she was put into, other than the fact that she had to know so that she wouldn't be in the same one. If she was in the same one, everyone would mistake her for Padma, or worse, call her Padma's Twin again. She was tired of it, and no longer wanted that to happen. Therefore, she could not allowed it to happen.

"RAVENCLAW!"

Parvati blinked as her sister raced over to her new House, dark hair flowing behind her in a wave of curls. That meant it was her time to shine. Her time to be put under that Hat and find out where she belonged. As long as it wasn't Ravenclaw, she did not care.

"Patil, Parvati."

Her braid bounced on her back as she walked up the Great Hall to Professor McGonagall. She sat down on the stool, allowing the Head of Gryffindor to place the Sorting Hat onto her head.

"Well, what should we do with you?" it asked. "It has been a year since I've had to sort twins. I hope you make it exciting."

Hello. Do twins have to be in the same House as each other?

"Most certainly not, my Dear. Although you do possess many of the qualities that Ravenclaw's have been known to have, you do also represent another House."

May I be placed in that House, then?

"Of course. May it be GRYFFINDOR!"

A pair of identical red-heads wolf-whistled as she got off the stool and walked over to the table. Parvati only briefly glanced at Padma, whose face was showing an upset expression. Parvati turned away, unbothered. Now she would be known for herself, instead of Padma's twin. She would be the best.

"Hi, I'm Lavender!" a girl greeted as the Sorting finished. "It's nice to meet you! Are you glad to be in Gryffindor House? I am, although my older brother is in Slytherin—but I don't need him, now."

Parvati felt like she could relate, although she did glance back at Padma. She was busy talking to the other kids around her, ignoring Parvati. Well, two could play at that game.

"I'm Parvati. It's nice to meet you, Lavender."

(Parvati did not realise that in just a few weeks time, Padma would be referred to as 'Parvati's Ravenclaw Twin.' Nor did she realise that, within Ravenclaw, she would be known as 'Padma's Gryffindor Twin.')

(In those few weeks, however, the girls had made up as Parvati got over her childish jealousy, and Parvati had forgotten all about the name she was given in her attempt to detach herself from it.)

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

(i want to hide in a hole for the rest of my life so that I do not have to write anymore crappy fanfiction, but alas, I write crappy fanfiction instead.)

~Buttercat